Techinvasion.net » personal News http://www.techinvasion.net Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:02:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Blast From the Past – BBS.Techinvasion.net http://www.techinvasion.net/2009/02/02/blast-from-the-past-bbs-and-door-games/ http://www.techinvasion.net/2009/02/02/blast-from-the-past-bbs-and-door-games/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:12:17 +0000 john http://www.techinvasion.net/?p=109 Recently as a project cleaning up some old files and software, I came across a software disk for an old BBS I used to run. This got my interest peaked as I wondered if there were still BBS systems Alive and well on the internet. Information on BBS systems was few and far between in my research and it took me a while to make some headway. Eventually I came across http://Synchro.net  BBS software. This software is very similar to old school dos BBS’s. I installed the software which was no small feet given the inadequate build instructions. Once the system was built and installed I had allot of fun setting up classic door games such as Trade wars and others.

I also discovered that Dove-net and Fido-net are still alive and well, and there are a great many BBS’s connected all over the world. If the internet is a vast global city such as Coruscant (in Star Wars) then BBS’s and protocols such as telnet and gopher are its seedy underworld. An eclectic grouping of forgotten protocols running on forgotten systems, used by a hand full of lost souls who still cling to the web as it was. I had allot of fun setting up this BBS and I would like to use it in some way as a fun addition to part of my site.

 

In the spirit of the above and to old memories and a simpler if not better time I want to announce that telnet://bbs.techinvasion.net is open for business, with door games and all. Accounts are free, and I have even put up a forum for people to request firmware and various other things that they might need for a networking project. I hope everyone has as much fun using the system as I had creating it and I hope to see everyone in a session of Trade Wars.

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1 on “spanning tree”

1 on “load balancing spanning treeusing different trunks”

1 on BGP and some of the issues a major ecommerce site has to consider when implimenting it.

and I am considering writing an article on diffent IGP routing protocols. i am always looking for challenges and ways to make this site more interactive and perhapse to build a community around it. To that end I have setup a forum which is not really used. I would Like to also take requests for articles or solutions to problems.

if there is anything that you want to see an article on, or a configuration for any thing related to networking I can build a lab out and turn your requests into a full fledged article. I would encourage you to send an email to john at techinvasion dot net.

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